As a person who seeks information, it is extremely vital that you have a great search engine at your disposal. It is not enough to have the engine if you don’t know how to use it. Follow along as I give you 10 tips for google searching.

1. Use quotes for exact phrases

If you are searching for an exact quote, try using quotation marks around the statement to get better results. Google will then only give you results that yield these words in this order.

2. Asterisk within quote if you don’t know the full statement.

We have all been there, you remember this awesome song but you can’t remember the full lyrics. Well guess what, if you use an asterisk you can easily find a song if you didn’t catch all of the lyrics (e.g. ” I don’t ever want to feel * take me to the place I love”).

3. Use a dash to eliminate results with specific words

If you want to search up for example a book but aren’t interested in its movie adaptation then you can use the minus to eliminate these results. ( Harry Potter -movie)

4. Search a website for certain key words or topics

So if you ever want to search for information but only want results from a specific website you can use the site: command. For example if you wanted to known overtime The New York Times mentioned Trump you’d search Trump site:nytimes.com